Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”

18 April 2025

Episode 5.12 – Star Trek: “World Enough and Time”

Can some fan-fiction teach us more about carpe diem than a classic Roman poet?

Let’s get over ourselves a bit and give this fan-produced Star Trek episode a chance. How we decide literary quality, how we work with allusion, and how we interpret contemporary texts are all fair game in this episode that finds some surprising depth in the screenwriting in a science fiction literary niche.

Watch the New Voyages episode, “World Enough and Time” (2008):  https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4TC5wl0IzE

Our Steps In Literary Interpretation:

1. Notice
2. Significance
3. Pattern
4.   (tba)

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CHAPTERS

00:00   Trekkie Love
03:35   Theme
04:08   Un-Trashing Mass Culture
10:02   New Voyages Backgrounder
14:18   Alluding to “World Enough and Time”
17:42   Star Trek Answers Marvell (All Spoilers!)
27:52   Did We Get an Answer?
34:42   Outro & Credits

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Transcript:  https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/transcript-5-12-star-trek-world-enough-and-time

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CREDITS:

Original music by Randon Myles (https://randonmyles.com/)

Chapter headings by Natalie Harrison and Sarah Skaleski

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MLA CITATION:

Chisnell, Steve. “Star Trek: ‘World Enough and Time’,’” Waywords Studio, 18 April 2025, https://waywordsstudio.com/project/andrew-marvell-coy-mistress/.